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ὀλιγαρχικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγαρχικός ὀλιγαρχική ὀλιγαρχικόν

Structure: ὀλιγαρχικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. oligarchical, of, for or like oligarchy
  2. inclined to oligarchy

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ παρέδωκασ σὺ καὶ ἐνεχείρισασ τὴν πόλιν ἅπασαν ταύτῃ, ἣν αὐτίκα φήσεισ ὀλιγαρχικὴν εἶναι· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 75:2)
  • πολιτείαν δὲ τὴν μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδου τὴν ἄγαν λαμυρὰν καὶ τὸ μὴ καθαρεῦον ἀναγωγίασ καὶ βωμολοχίασ ἐν τῷ πρὸσ χάριν ὁμιλεῖν τοῖσ πολλοῖσ οἱ σώφρονεσ ἐβδελύττοντο, τὴν δὲ Μαρκίου παντάπασιν ἄχαριν καὶ ὑπερήφανον καὶ ὀλιγαρχικὴν γενομένην ἐμίσησεν ὁ Ῥωμαίων δῆμοσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus, chapter 1 3:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἰσχυρὸν αὐτοῦ πρὸσ ἅπαντα τῆσ γνώμησ καὶ καρτερὸν ὁρμάσ τε μεγάλασ καὶ τελεσιουργοὺσ τῶν καλῶν ἐξέφερε, θυμοῖσ τε αὖ πάλιν χρώμενον ἀκράτοισ καὶ φιλονεικίαισ ἀτρέπτοισ οὐ ῥᾴδιον οὐδ’ εὐάρμοστον ἀνθρώποισ συνεῖναι παρεῖχεν, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐν ἡδοναῖσ καὶ πόνοισ καὶ ὑπὸ χρημάτων ἀπάθειαν αὐτοῦ θαυμάζοντεσ καὶ ὀνομάζοντεσ ἐγκράτειαν καὶ δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἀνδρείαν, ἐν ταῖσ πολιτικαῖσ αὖ πάλιν ὁμιλίαισ ὡσ ἐπαχθῆ καὶ ἄχαριν καὶ ὀλιγαρχικὴν ἐδυσχέραινον. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 1 3:1)
  • οὐκ ἀγνοῶ δ’ ὅτι καὶ βουλήν τινεσ ἐπαχθῆ καὶ ὀλιγαρχικὴν κολούσαντεσ, ὥσπερ Ἐφιάλτησ Ἀθήνησι καὶ Φορμίων παρ’ Ἠλείοισ, δύναμιν ἅμα καὶ δόξαν ἔσχον· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 10 21:1)
  • ὀλιγαρχικὴν δὲ ποιεῖ καὶ τὴν τῆσ βουλῆσ αἱρ́εσιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 126:1)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to oligarchy

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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